April 4, 2023

Why Biden should follow the Gerald Ford precedent

I've not heard this from anyone, but it occurs to me that the best political and personal move for Biden would be to follow the Gerald Ford precedent and grant a full pardon to Donald Trump.  Although Trump is currently under indictment...

August 9, 2022

A simple plan: Free Bus Ride to Sanctuary

I love what Texas governor Greg Abbott is doing in giving illegal entrants the option of being bused from Texas to D.C. and now New York City.  With U.S. Customs and Border Protection reporting well over 200,00...

February 5, 2022

The Medicare 'free' at-home COVID virus test boondoggle

Medicare recipients at first were left out of the "free" COVID tests that private insurers were required to provide.  Well, now we old folks are included among those able to grab eight free tests per month.  The New York...

October 30, 2021

Biden's Nobel laureate game

In his announcement Friday, before leaving for Rome, that "we have a historic economic framework," President Biden went on to say: Seventeen Nobel Prize winners in economics have said it will lower the inflationary pressures ...

August 24, 2021

Director of the National Institutes of Health grossly misstates the science on vaccination vs. natural immunity

On the August 12, 2021 Special Report, Bret Baier asked NIH director Francis Collins: "Can you definitely say to somebody that the vaccine provides better protection than the antibodies you get from actually having had COVID-19?" Dr...

November 26, 2020

Suspicious timing of Pfizer vaccine announcement

On November 9, Pfizer announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate demonstrated efficacy of over 90% based on the mix of 94 cases between the placebo and vaccine groups in its Phase 3 clinical trial.  This was extremely exciting ...

September 14, 2020

Dr. Fauci: 'I have to disagree' with Trump on coronavirus

American Thinker has run several articles like this one about Dr. Anthony Fauci's political bias (which is his right).  But the Miami Herald published an article that was aimed at undermining President Trump, wh...

April 17, 2020

Rahm Emanuel can’t help himself, but what about the Wall Street Journal?

Rahm Emanuel makes some suggestions that are worthy of consideration in his Wall Street Journal opinion piece,  "How to Prepare for the Next Pandemic” (April 13). However, not only does he use the coronavirus crisis as an oppo...

December 22, 2019

The voter purge myth

This article by David Harsanyi is excellent and makes it clear (as have many other articles) that the claims by Stacey Abrams and many other Democrats about losing elections due to voter suppression via improper purging of voter rolls is utter nonsen...

November 1, 2019

Journalists keep saying ‘no evidence of wrongdoing by Bidens,’ but they are wrong

One thing that irks me to no end is the statement in virtually all mainstream media stories referencing Hunter Biden that, “There is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens.”  For example, here it is in a WSJ story today: ...

June 4, 2017

Aussie PM defends opponent of same-sex marriage

  You don't have to be a tennis fan to find this three-and-a-half-minute video interesting.  How many politicians in the US would dare say what the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, did on this? PM Malcolm Turn...

April 15, 2017

Global warming: Science or dogma?

The Science & Environmental Policy Project is an outstanding resource for those unwilling to bury their heads in the sand and blindly accept the notion that human-caused catastrophic global warming is settled science and must be the hig...

February 5, 2017

Chinese social media takes up the Trumphaters

This subtitled video (follow this link) of a demonstration/shouting match/debate following President Trump’s inauguration is widely circulating in China through various WeChat groups (WeChat is China's predominant social media platform and ...

September 30, 2016

The election is being stolen right before our eyes

Thanks to the efforts of Democrats, safeguards against vote fraud are being gutted.  John Fund lists a number of ways we are being set up for fraud on NRO.  My favorite items in this basket of deplorable practices are: But federal agen...

September 16, 2016

CNBC's reporter John Harwood imagines racial overtones in reporting on Trump's New York Economic Club speech

Immediately following the airing of Donald Trump's major speech to the Economic Club of New York, the CNBC anchor turned to the network's longtime political reporter, John Harwood, for his reaction.  Here's part of what Harwood ...

August 31, 2016

Muddled NeverTrump thinking

I usually agree with Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens and admire his clear thinking.  But in his recent article, "Who Did This to Us?," I believe that his strong opposition to Trump has completely mudd...

July 2, 2016

Incredible statement by New York Times in front-page article on House Benghazi report

I heard this New York Times take on the Benghazi report mentioned on a noontime political discussion show on Fox News yesterday and found it so absurd that I had to check for myself.  Here it is: The New York Times front-page article following t...

July 18, 2014

The Obama Creed?

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. This inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City is often referred to as The United States Postal Serv...

June 15, 2014

Don't worry about Obama, he's getting in his golf this weekend

With all so calm and peaceful throughout the world, it's the perfect time for Obama to kick back for a long weekend by hopping on Air Force One to Palm Springs and, with limo service provided by a Marine One chopper, attend a DNC fund raiser in L...

January 27, 2013

Obama's Strange Silence

Maybe I've missed it, but has anyone heard even a peep from President Obama about this year's flu epidemic?  Has this most persuasive man on earth even once used the bully pulpit to promote simple, inexpensive and incontrovertibly protective ste...

December 26, 2012

It's Not Too Late

It's not too late for House Republicans to regroup and pass an extension of the Bush tax cuts along the lines of Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" before yearend.  With those tax cuts scheduled to expire on January 1, each representative will soon be f...

December 3, 2012

Taking it to the President on the Fiscal Cliff

President Obama believes he has boxed-in Republicans with the fiscal cliff negotiations, and is playing hardball, causing some Republicans to urge capitulation, certain that otherwise blame for the presumed financial crisis to follow will fall on the...

July 22, 2012

Lying about Romney's taxes

The Democrats' efforts to portray Mitt Romney as not paying his "fair share" ignore the truth, shamelessly lying about taxes. The latest example comes from Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. In his appearance last Sund...

September 10, 2009

Obama Inconsistent on Competition

In "A Real Education Outrage", the WSJ opined today:President Obama's speech to students this week got plenty of attention, and many conservatives looked foolish by fretting about "indoctrination." They would have done far mo...

July 18, 2009

A tax break that will raise taxes

Obama and the Democrats have been trying to maintain the fiction of adhering to their campaign promise of absolutely no tax increases on anyone making less than $250,000.  In addition to already enacted higher cigarette taxes and their...

April 29, 2009

UAW to bargain with subsidized companies it controls

Let's get this straight: taxpayers are being placed on the hook for keeping automakers solvent, and now the UAW will be bargaining with itself on wages, benefits, and work rules.In today's WSJ, Holman Jenkins does a wonderful job revealing The T...

April 28, 2009

UAW to control Chrysler (updated)

I suggested earlier that government bailouts of the automobile companies be conditioned on the United Auto Workers accepting a controlling ownership stake in the auto companies.  I indicated that union ownership would be preferable to gover...

April 5, 2009

Learn from China's experience

Americans should heed warnings from China about what happens when the state controls banks.In his excellent column in the April 4, 2009 WSJ, Obama Wants to Control the Banks, Stuart Varney writes:I must be naive. I really thought the administrat...

November 20, 2008

A suggestion for Big Three and UAW (updated)

My conceptual solution to the auto company bailout question is as follows: The federal government makes a one-time only injection of the requested $25 billion into the Big Three in return for a proportionate ownership stake in the companies.  Ba...